WHETHER starting a career, vying for a promotion or returning to the workforce after a break, there are certain cliche pieces of advice you are likely to hear from family and friends.

A growing proportion of recent university graduates – as much as 40 per cent – face the potential frustration of being overqualified for their jobs, a new report has revealed.

Yoshiharu Ueki says what should be more important to you is not how many hours you are putting into your work, but how efficient you work and what results you produce.

Psychologists have long noticed what’s sometimes been called the “labor illusion:” when it comes to judging other people’s work, we might say we’re focused only on whether they did the job quickly and well—but really we want to feel they wore themselves out for us.